Originally Posted by 1varangian
Oh look it's my pet peeve. =)

Mage Armor
Arcane Ward
Longstrider
...

Basically all the perma-buffs look really obtrusive and annoying. And there will be more long lasting buffs at higher levels that add to the mess... There are solutions:

- make the VFX more subtle if they are always on!
- only show them during combat
- only show VFX when the spell effect is activated e.g. Mage Armor force field is briefly visible only when it is hit
- at the very least disable them during dialogue

Amen to that.